Hello everybody...

I am Ibrahim a new member and this is my first writing in DNN forums, I have downloaded the leatest production from DNN and 4.5 and I extract it on my E drive, then I creat a virtual directory for the DNN, but the problem I faced in creating a new database on  "SQL Server 2005".  I have watched a vedio for DNN 3 on SQL 2003, but it is deffrent from 2005.

I need your help how can I creat DNN database, and in the WEB file how should the connection string be, what must I change inorder to let it work as localhost on my PC.

note: I use winXP.

Thanks.

Hello again...

Thank you for help.

I have downloaded the "sql server management studio express" , and then I creat the database and the login correctly with no problems but on the other hand I faced a new problem in editting the connection string in the "web.config" file, I do not know how should the connection string be in order to run the application localy on my PC.

How shoul the following two inputs be set:

1- |DataDirectory|.

2- .\SQLExpress.

Please write to me a full connection string example if it possible.

thanks a lot.

• if you use sql express, you don't need to touch the connections string
• make sure, you set appropriate permissions for the installation folder and added default.aspx as default document in IIS virtual directory configuration